On The 8th Of March We Saw Some Smoke On The Main, Being Distant
From It Four Or Five Leagues.
It is very high, woody land, with
some spots of savannah.
About ten in the morning six or seven
canoes came off to us. Most of them had no more than one man in
them. They were all black, with short curled hair, having the same
ornaments in their noses, and their heads so shaved and painted, and
speaking the same words as the inhabitants of Cave's Island before
mentioned.
There was a headland to the southward of us, beyond which, seeing no
land, I supposed that from thence the land trends away more
westerly. This headland lies in the latitude of 5 degrees 2 minutes
south, and meridian distance from Cape Mabo 1,290 miles. In the
night we lay by, for fear of overshooting this headland, between
which and Cape St. Manes the land is high, mountainous and woody,
having many points of land shooting out into the sea, which make so
many fine bays; the coast lies north-north-east and south-south-
west.
The 9th, in the morning a huge black man came off to us in a canoe,
but would not come aboard. He made the same signs of friendship to
us as the rest we had met with; yet seemed to differ in his
language, not using any of those words which the others did. We saw
neither smoke nor plantations near this headland.
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